Sanitary sugar-container.



' 3. 1,11 3,01 8. Patented oct. 6, 1914.

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SANITARY `SUGAR GON'IAINIR` APPLIOATION FILED Nov.1o, 1913.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

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` JosnPH KANTOR, ornnvv YORK, N. Y:

" SANITARY SUGAR-CONTAINER;

TED, STATES rArENT O Specification of Letters Patent.

l y applicati@ filed novemberio, isis. serial No. 800,131.

To all whom t may concern: s

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KANTOR, a` subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at New York city, in the county of `New York and State of New York, have invented cer-` tain new and useful Improvements `in Sani-` tary Sugar-Containers; and I do herebyde-` cl'are the following `to be ..a`full, clear, and exact description of the invention,` suchas will enable others skilled in the art to which l it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to sanitary isugar containers designed for the purposeof holding out sugar in a sanitary condition in lunch rooms, coffee houses, restaurants and other places where food is dispensed. It is the `usual custom in `dairy lunches and other places to display a large bowl of cut sugar on one of the counters. The customers coming in for luncheon usually help themselves to the sugar by taking up one or more of the lumps of sugar and it ofte-n; happens that they will handle manyzpieces of sugar which. they do not use. Moreover, this sugar is not protected from flies or from dust and flying particles the air. As a result of this practice disease germs may be communicated from one person to another and the practice is uncfleanly as well as unsanitary and unwholesome.

It is the purpose of myinvention to improve this character of device and to render the use of sugar in the places referred to sanitary, cleanly and wholesome.

In carrying out my invention'I make use of means for containing aquantity of `cut sugar and means for feedingthe lumps of sugar through tub-es, or chutes, to a tray or base portion and to provide sliding covers which may be `operated to produce one lump of sugar at a time upon "thetray, thus permitting the customer to secure one lump of sugar at a time and as many as he desires without handling the other lumps of sugar inthe container or in the other tubes.

\ In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of container which I may use, Fig. 2 is a `horizontal seetional view of the container takenl on `line 2.-2 of Fig. l,`looking inthe direction indicated by the arrow, Figh` is a sectional view taken on line 3&3 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

While I have shown a certain form or contour or sugar container itlwill be under-` stood that the general shapeor `form of the FFioE. g

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containermay be varied within wide limits y and `may be made of terial, like meta-1S.` .b r .l .l

`As shown in the accompanyingdrawings glass, or may be made of various other .transparent ma- .l

the numeral 1 designates a container havs .ing a cover Qand a support 3 for the container `l, which maybe a section of glass tubing of sufficient size to contain threeforl four pounds, more or less, offcut sugar. Thesupport 3 is provided with an vannular series of perforations 4 and `thecentral` por` `tion orapex 5 communicates withthe per forations "4. by means of inclined curved guide ways 6, `so that the lumps of sugar in the container 1` will by through-"the p'erforations 4 into the discharge tubes 7, any number of whichmay be provided.` These discharge tubes "Z` at 8. preferably provided surface 9. Mounted telescopically upon the lower ends of the discharge tubes 7 are tu"` bular gravity covers l0,l The covers l0 will be prevented from rotation and` permitted gravity drop f 75" their lower ends aresupported upon a tray .y

with a concave upper to slidevertically bymeans of the guide` i wires o which extend through tubular portions b in rear of the cover, secured at the top to `the container and at the bottom to thebase. The lower ends of said wires being the tubes` 7 are cut away as at 1l on their front or outer sidesso that the lower lump of sugar 12will rest upon the concave sur-` face 9 of the `tray 8 and be exposed when the cover l0 is lifted so that the user may remove the lower lump` and permit the next lump above to drop upon the tray 8. A

ring extends around the discharge tubes l to hold them inplace and said ring servesas `a stop for the upper :edge of the sliding `cover to limit its upward movement in use.

The wall Ilt ofthe container isinclined inwardly as shown to assist in` feeding` they lumps of sugar into the discharge tubey 7 To insure the feeding of the lumps of sugar from the container into thedischarge tubes, a wire c is connected to the side of each of the telescopic covers 10, and as the covers are lifted the upper ends of` the wires will agitate the lumps of sugar in the con.`

tainer and assist in feeding the lumps into the tubes.

From `the foregoing it will be obvious that a sanitary sugar container made in accordance with my invention will keep the sugar in a cleanly and wholesome condition and will not permit the handling of the various pieces of sugar by persons coming into a restaurant or lunch room, excepting in so far as the piece of sugar to be used by the person referred to.

My inventionL is simple in construction,A

may be made very ornamental or very plain, and serves its purpose in an effective and elflcient manner.

TvVhat is claimed is K A sanitary container for cut sugar comprising a base, a container supported upon the base and a series of intermediate discharge tubes through' which thesugar is deposited in single pieces at the lower end of said tubes upon the base or tray, and sliding covers for said tubes mounted telescopically therein, said tubes beingcut away at their lower ends to give access to the lower lump of sugar in a discharge tube.

2. A sanitary container yfor cutr sugar, comprising a base for a concave' upper surface, a container provided with avcover,

said container at its lower end having a conical central portion and a series of curved inclined guide ways, a series of discharge. tubes communicating with the guide ways, telescopic covers at the lower ends of said discharge tubes, and a stop to limit the upward movement oi said covers.

I 3. A container Jfor cut sugar comprising a base, a receptacle for the sugar, having an internal conical portion provided with a series of yradially inclined curved guide ways, a series of discharge tubes communifcating with said guide ways, l being-cut awayk at their front lower ends to permit access to the sugar in singlepieces, and telescopic covers adapted to be raised for giving accessto the sugar.-

in presence of two witnesses. l

. JOSEPH 'KANTOl-.

Witnesses: MORRIS FRISE74 ADRAIN KELLEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

said tubes n y'ln testimony whereof I aliX my signature n 

